When the Sky Fell on Splendor

Posted on 07 January 2018 by Emily Henry

Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill exploded If you weren t a casualty of the accident yourself, chances are a loved one was That s the case for seventeen year old Franny, who, five years after the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma In the wake of the tragedy, Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small following of YouTube fans It s silly, it s fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them.Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn t fiction it s a bright light, something massive hurdling toward them from the sky And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate everything changes. Read When the Sky Fell on Splendor author Emily Henry – kino-fada.fr Due to unfortunate circumstances my boredom and the universe s tendency to endlessly aggravate me , I m not really crazy about this book.The one thing that could have really salvaged this novel is if it had its own version of Steve Harrington from Stranger Things who realizes that romantic love is fake and decides to redirect all of his overflowing care and affection by aggressively mothering a bunch of middle schoolers Oh, and gays For a potentially quick read, I slogged through the pages fo Due to unfortunate circumstances my boredom and the universe s tendency to endlessly aggravate me , I m not really crazy about this book.The one thing that could have really salvaged this novel is if it had its own version of Steve Harrington from Stranger Things who realizes that romantic love is fake and decides to redirect all of his overflowing care and af...Emily Henry does it again With a perfect balance of real world intensity with a focus on friendship and grief and other worldly elements supernatural entities and powers, her latest novel is a real treat.I love Emily Henry.Typically, I have reservations about making love based declarations about people I don t know on the internet Seems a lil weird Like, how would Rami Malek feel if he knew I was writing sonnets about how he manages to be devastatingly attractive even with weird fake teeth How would Bill Hader feel if he knew about how many clips of his interviews I ve watched in a row on YouTube Both of those are, of course, completely made up examples.In the case of Emily Henry, though, I m I love Emily Henry.Typically, I have reservations about making love based declarations about people I don t know on the internet Seems a lil weird Like, how would Rami Malek feel if he knew I was writing sonnets about how he manages to be devastatingly attractive even with weird fake teeth How would Bill Hader feel if he knew about how many clips of his interviews I ve watched in a row on YouTube Both of those are, of course, completely made up examples.In the case of Emily Henry, though, I m willing to make an exception This is for several reasons 1 Because of the sheer volume of adoring things I ve written about her and her books, i...I really, really loved the characters and the setting of this one, but the plot just did not do it for me I am hecka bummed.A book about a bunch of weirdos who love each other but aren t always great at it.This was a bit of solidly lovely mind twistery and I really enjoyed it It definitely had Stranger Things feel and was entirely focused on a friendship group that totally wins your heart over with their messy attitudes and loving hearts Also there are ...me trying to figure out what the hell was going on in this book Okay so I disliked this book so much that I didn t even finish it I DNF d it at like 35% because I just couldn t take it any And the fact that that actually happened baffles me I can t wrap my head around how badly this book disappointed me I almost never preorder books, but When the Sky Fell on Splendor was one of the 5 books I preordered this year Needless to say, I was expecting to love it, as I d loved Berry s A Milli me trying to figure out what the hell was going on in this book Okay so I disliked this book so much that I didn t even finish it I DNF d it at like 35% because I just couldn t take it any And the fact that that actually happened baffles me I can t wrap my head around how badly this book disappointed me I almost never preorder books, but When the Sky Fell on Splendor was one of the 5 books I preordered this year Needless to say, I was expecting to love it, as I d loved Berry s A Million Junes But I did not, not even close.I honestly just have no idea what this book was trying to do I didn t finish it, so that s probably why, but even from the 100 or so pages that I did read, I was so confused First of all, almost the who...Less than 3 stars but not quite 2.5 I don t know why we didn t click It sounds like my kind of thing, and yet it fell so flat I don t remember the last time I skimmed so much I could barely connect with something And it s ...When the Sky Fell on Splendor features main character Franny, along with her brother Arthur and several other friends The teens enjoy filming ghost hunter videos for fun and escape from their disappointing home lives The six friends were initially drawn together in their grief after a steel mill explosion five years earlier had stolen the lives of some of their family members.While filming videos late one evening, Franny and her friends witness what appears to be a real supernatural event, a U When the Sky Fell on Splendor features main character Franny, along with her brother Arthur and several other friends The teens enjoy filming ghost hunter videos for fun and escape from their disappointing home lives The six friends were initially drawn together in their grief after a steel mill explosion five years earlier had stolen the lives of some of their family members.While filming v...

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07 January 2018

Emily Henry